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CANADIAN OBSERVATORY ON THE JUSTICE SYSTEM'S RESPONSE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE / OBSERVATOIRE CANADIEN SUR LES MESURES JUDCIAIRES PRISES POUR CONTRER LA VIOLENCE CONJUGALE

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2012

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2011

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile, January 2011

English Report

French Report

Learning by doing Center for Court Innovation

 

Violence against Women in Canada

Violence Against Women in Canada: Research and Policy Perspectives, Holly Johnson & Myrna Dawson

Violence Against Women: Research and Policy Perspectives in Canada provides a comprehensive overview of the issue of violence against women in its Canadian context, including underlying theoretical explanations, empirical research, and an examination of legal and social policy responses to the problem. It thoroughly examines what lessons can be drawn from the volumes of accumulated research and evaluation literature in Canada, and elsewhere, and provides a complete picture of how far Canada has come in our response to crimes of violence against women, where our investments have taken us, and where we are heading. Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 0195429818; ISBN-13: 9780195429817.

 

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical ProfileFamily Violence
Released January, 2011

Readers can access any of the editions of this publication from here.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/85-224-x2010000-eng.pdf

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/85-224-x2010000-fra.pdf


2010

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile, 2010

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11643-fra.pdf

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11643-eng.pdf

 

 

Torn from Our Midst

Torn from Our Midst: Voices of Grief, Healing and Action from the Missing Indigenous Women

Conference, 2008

Mary Rucklos Hampton, Wendee Kubik, A. Brenda Anderson  

Since 1980, more than 520 Aboriginal women have been reported missing or murdered in Canada. From 1993-2003, 370 women were murdered in Ciudad Juarez and Chihua­hua, Mexico. Since 2001, more than 2,000 Guatemalan women and girls have been brutally murdered. Responding to the profound tragedy inherent in these statistics, more than 300 women and men gathered in August 2008 at a conference entitled Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms, and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico. Torn from Our Midst includes images and voices from the conference , together with additional reflections, both academic personal, on the effects of violence and the possibilities for healing.


2009

bilbiographie francophoneJune 2009. LA RÉPONSE DU SYSTÈME DE JUSTICE À LA VIOLENCE CONJUGALE : Une bibliographie annotée. Préparée pour l'Observatoire Canadien sur les mesures judiciaires prises pour contrer la violence conjugale.

English BilbliographyJune 2009. THE JUSTICE SYSTEM RESPONSE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE:
An annotated bibliography.
Prepared for Canadian Observatory on the Justice System Response to Intimate Partner Violence.

A National Portrait of Domestic Violence Courts

Domestic Violence: Drawing on in-depth site visits and a national survey, Center researchers produced a portrait of domestic violence courts across the country. The results suggest that there is broad agreement about the key goals of victim safety and offender accountability—and wide variation in how courts attempt to reach  those goals. http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/national_portrait.pdf

A National Compendium of Domestic Violence Courts

This compendium serves as a companion document to A National Portrait of Domestic Violence Courts. The compendium provides contact information for 208 criminal domestic violence courts in the United States as of December 2009. These courts handle criminal domestic violence cases on a separate calendar or assign criminal domestic violence cases to one or more dedicated judges or judicial officers. http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/national_compendium.pdf

 

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Released October, 2009

Family Violence Readers can access any of the editions of this publication from here.

 

 

A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE

Victims of Sexual Assault:Rollercoaster Ride

Their Experiences with and Views about the Criminal Justice Process in the ACT 2009

This report provides information principally derived from two studies involving a number of adults who had experienced a sexual assault and who had reported the incident to police in the ACT. The first component involved qualitative interviews with individual victims of sexual assault to ascertain in depth their views and experiences of the criminal justice process. The second involved the research participants answering questions about procedural fairness using a computer program specifically designed for a larger national research project.

 


 “We Don’t Shoot Our Wounded…”

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Victims of Family Violence Access to Justice and Access to Services in the ACT. ACT Victims of Crime Coordinator,  March 2009.We don't shoot our wounded

 

This research report comprises the first stage of the project and was completed in February 2008.

  • The aims were to:
  •  provide a statistical snapshot of Indigenous victims of crime within the ACT criminal justice system over a specific period of time
  •  investigate the circumstances to and support of Indigenous victims of crime seeking help from the criminal justice system and
  •  provide an overview of research and other relevant information undertaken in the ACT and elsewhere in Australia on Indigenous victims of crime.

2008What's Law Got to do with it

What’s Law Got To Do With It? The Law and Specialized Domestic Violence Courts in Canada.

 

Edited by: Ursel. J., Tutty, L., Lemaistre, J. (2008). Cormorant Press, Toronto.

What’s Law Got To Do With It? examines changes in the Canadian justice system from the introduction of protection order legislation, to family law, to changes in criminal court procedures.

From the Yukon to downtown Toronto, specialized domestic violence courts are exploring new strategies to aid victims and hold perpetrators accountable. In What’s Law Got To Do With It? we learn from the perspective of prosecutors, victims, and researchers of the efficacy of these changes. The authors present recent, original research on the impact of specialized courts, the utilization of protection orders, and questions about custody in family violence cases.


 

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Domestic Violence intervention Court Model evaluation

Domestic Violence Intervention Court Model (DVICM) evaluation

Released: 21 May 2008

Efforts to improve the response of the criminal justice system to victims of domestic violence appear to have substantially succeeded, according to a report released today by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

The principal aims of the NSW Domestic Violence Intervention Court Model (DVICM) were to:

  • improve safety for victims of domestic violence coming into contact with the criminal justice system, and;
  • ensure that perpetrators who are charged with domestic violence offences are held to account for their actions.

Report


 

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Community supervision and rehabilitation

Community supervision and rehabilitation: Two studies of offenders on supervised bonds

Don Weatherburn and Lily Trimboli

February 2008

Convicted offenders are often subjected to some form of supervision to reduce the risk of further offending. To date, however, there has been no Australian research into the effectiveness of supervision in reducing reoffending.  This bulletin presents the results of two studies.


Report


 

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Released October, 2008

Edited by Lucie Ogrodnik, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada

This is a link to the annual Family Violence in Canada publication (English and French).

Readers can access any of the editions of this publication from here.

English report

French report


2007

Court Responses to Batterer Program Noncompliance: A National Perspective

Court Responses to Batterer Program Non-Compliance

Court Responses to Batterer Program Non-Compliance


March 2007.

Melissa Labriola, Michael Rempel, Chris S. O'Sullivan, Phyllis B. Frank, Jim McDowell, and Rachel Finkelstein.

A study conducted in collaboration with VCS Inc. that examines how criminal courts respond when domestic violence offenders are noncompliant with a court mandate to a batterer program. The study, based on a national survey of courts, batterer programs, and victim assistance agencies in all 50 states, detected overwhelming support for the goal of "accountability" in theory but a gap between theory and practice, as most courts indicated that they do not always or often impose sanctions when offenders are noncompliant with the batterer program mandate.

http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/Court_Responses_March2007.pdf


Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
ed October 11, 2007

Edited by Lucie Ogrodnik, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada

This is a link to the annual Family Violence in Canada publication (English and French).

Readers can access any of the editions of this publication from here.

English report

French report:


Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile
Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile

2006

Familiby Lucie Ogrodnik

English report:


French report:



Testing the Effectiveness of Batterer Programs and Judicial Monitoring
Testing the Effectiveness of Batterer Programs and Judicial Monitoring

2005

Testing the Effectiveness of Batterer Programs and Judicial Monitoring
Results from a Randomized Trial at the Bronx Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Court
November 2005

By Melissa Labriola, Michael Rempel, Chris S. O'Sullivan, Phyllis B. Frank, Jim McDowell, and Rachel Finkelstein

A study conducted in collaboration with VCS Inc. that examines how criminal courts respond when domestic violence offenders are noncompliant with a court mandate to a batterer program. The study, based on a national survey of courts, batterer programs, and victim assistance agencies in all 50 states, detected overwhelming support for the goal of "accountability" in theory but a gap between theory and practice, as most courts indicated that they do not always or often impose sanctions when offenders are noncompliant with the batterer program mandate.

http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/battererprogramseffectiveness.pdf

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